Highly touted wing Timmy Allen commits to Utah basketball
Timmy Allen, one of the Top 200 recruits nationally in next year’s incoming class, announced that he has committed to play for the University of Utah.Allen, a 6-foot-5 wing player out of Red Mountain...
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As it prepares to host Utah, Arizona is rebuilding from the ground up
There wasn’t much sugarcoating.Not by Rich Rodriguez.At the Pac-12 Media Days in July, Arizona’s head coach laid out how, even as his team was recuperating from a 3-9 season — his first losing season...
View ArticleLawmakers question how Utah school districts found money ‘in the couch...
Jordan School District spent two years negotiating and preparing its recent overhaul of teacher salaries, school board member Matthew Young said Tuesday, and in April launched the first phase of its...
View ArticleRoy officers justified in fatally shooting man with his own gun
Two police officers were justified in fatally shooting an armed man, Weber County Attorney Chris Allred has determined.In a letter dated last Friday, Allred told Roy Police Chief Carl Merino that...
View ArticleAfter 50 years, University of Utah hangout Big Ed’s closes mysteriously
Big Ed’s, a hole-in-the-wall breakfast, booze and burger joint beloved by University of Utah students since 1968, suddenly closed last week, apparently for good.The reason why, however, is something of...
View ArticlePolice focus on murder suspect's library activity — and whether he researched...
Detectives believe a Spanish Fork man accused of murdering his wife last month may have researched legal defense strategies before her death, a search warrant affidavit unsealed Tuesday shows.Curtis...
View ArticleCoalition of attorneys general investigate drug manufacturers, distributors
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, along with attorneys general from 40 other states, is investigating whether unlawful business practices contributed to the nation’s escalating opioid abuse.A coalition...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Keeping Korea Safe
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View ArticleLetter: Were the letters surrounding Comey's firing a criminal conspiracy?
President Trump admitted to Lester Holt that he fired James Comey, at least in part, because of the Russia investigation. In common language, this is an attempt to obstruct justice. Whether as a legal...
View ArticleLetter: Too bad it took so long to react to assault of nurse
The other morning while watching KUTV’s broadcast, they reported on a violent video of a U. of U. head nurse being forcibly frog-walked out of the ER and arrested while university police stood by...
View ArticlePredators target NFL concussion victims, lawyers say
Philadelphia • Lawyers for former NFL players now eligible for payments under the league’s $1 billion concussion settlement said Tuesday they’ve found evidence that unscrupulous third-party providers...
View ArticleJudge says prominent forensic accountant can’t be expert witness in fraud...
A state judge on Tuesday disqualified prominent forensic accountant Gil Miller from testifying as an expert in the criminal trial of a Fountain Green father and son accused of defrauding investors in...
View ArticleDolphins suspend Lawrence Timmons and acquire Stephone Anthony as replacement
Miami • AWOL linebacker Lawrence Timmons wanted to rejoin the Miami Dolphins.Instead, they suspended him indefinitely and traded for a replacement, moves that signal his disappearance from the defense...
View ArticleWords With Friends adds 50,000 pop culture words
New York • Tell your bae or your bestie: The mobile game Words With Friends is adding thousands of pop culture words as part of its largest dictionary update in the game’s eight-year history.Game...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: Fight over Jemele Hill's tweets won't go away. It's about...
I love words, but sometimes they just aren’t up to the job.Like the word “inappropriate,” which has been applied to certain tweets last week by Jemele Hill, the ESPN commentator, one of which described...
View ArticleLetter: It’s up to members of Congress to take the principled path
President Trump is not an unprincipled person. His actions are not random; they are driven by principles. Unfortunately, his principles — self-centeredness, greed, racism, personal infallibility,...
View ArticleSalt Lake County Council reacts with mild sticker shock to Operation Rio...
Salt Lake County will need as much as $30 million over the next two years to fund its share of the ongoing Operation Rio Grande that since August has swept up more than 1,100 arrestees from the streets...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Utah would benefit from another Winter Olympics
What will you be doing in February 2026? How about volunteering at the nearest venue for the Winter Olympics?As Los Angeles is revving up to host its third Summer Olympic Games in 2028, the Associated...
View ArticleThat big boom? It was an old rocket motor exploding at Utah Test and Training...
That big boom you heard around lunchtime Tuesday in Davis and Weber counties? It was a planned detonation at the Utah Test and Training Range.The Air Force blew up a motor from a Trident I ballistic...
View ArticleLetter: Remembering when people were afraid of their own government
The recent announcement about Trump ending DACA eerily reminded me of the time in 1980, when I was a door-to-door census worker in Huntington Beach, Calif. My job was to contact people who had not...
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